Folding Forum

I've encountered the same issue on every Linux install that I've folded on. My solution (which may or may not make sense for you) was to attach my monitor(s) to the integrated GPU output when I knew that I would be folding for an extended period of time. This completely eliminated any input/render l...

florinandrei wrote:
Can we get the Linux GPU core to work with more recent drivers?

Thanks!

I'm currently folding on 19.10 with the 440.xx drivers successfully. I used the following PPA to get those drivers:
https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers ... ubuntu/ppa

Have you tried 440 yet?

Markus_Laker wrote:CPU folding on a 12-core Threadripper is still a decent contribution to be able to make to the cause.

Absolutely!

On Ubuntu and other Linux distros, it's often necessary to install the OpenCL headers and libraries if you don't install the proprietary drivers. For me, installing ocl-icd-opencl-dev worked like a charm. It's not clear to me than installing the CUDA toolkit and SDK would get you those headers and l...

HaloJones' recommendation is a good place to start, but I'm inferring from your nvidia-smi output that the 670 may be installed in the "top" or main PCI slot with the 2060 in the secondary PCI slot. Most motherboards have higher bus speeds on the main PCI slot (like x16) and lower speeds o...

Thanks Markus - sorry for the bad tip! My Fedora knowledge is rusty, and I didn't realize that such a package didn't exist for Fedora (or if it does, I don't know the name). Installing ocl-icd-devel may be sufficient, but I install nvidia-opencl-dev on my Ubuntu rig (along with packaged NVidia drive...

You have installed: nVidia driver - check opencl dev kit - check nvidia OpenCL - ? asking in case it was not part of the driver rpm It's not clear to me if OP installed nvidia-opencl-dev in addition to ocl-icd-opencl-dev. I'd double-check this before pursuing bruce's wise suggestion of installing d...

If you're really ambitious, Sony did open source their Android FAH client! You can learn more on the Android client from Sony forum page: viewforum.php?f=100

The first critical question is which GPU drivers are .. or can be .. installed. Many linux distributions are supplied with drivers capable of driving video on a number of different GPUs but often those drivers do no support the features necessary to run FAH on nVidia or ATI/AMD GPUs -- and finding ...

+1 to what gordonbb shared. I've installed binaries directly from Nvidia before when I needed a driver with no OpenGL libs, but ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa is a godsend if you're on a Debian-based distro and you just want the latest and greatest stable driver. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drive...

The Radeon R4 does appear in FAH's GPUs.txt file: https://apps.foldingathome.org/GPUs.txt
I don't have any firsthand knowledge of its folding performance.

The "advanced" setting doesn't change the PPD but does enable you to be assigned WU from other projects. Understood - that's why I was curious to note what project that first WU came from before I had set the advanced flag. I'd also be curious if that WU was a fluke and other 2060 users a...

I was planing to get a 2060 but its still not listed in Denmark. Looking forward to some real world results. I finally received my EVGA RTX 2060 (XC Ultra) and can report a consistent 1.1M PPD on Linux using NVIDIA's 415.27 drivers. The first WU came in before I had set client-type = advanced and o...

In my limited experience, the iGPU on most desktop computers is enabled even if a discrete GPU is present with display attached. But if not, you can always peek into the BIOS and look for iGPU settings to fiddle with. On my Intel board, my options are "Auto", "Enabled", and "...

At the risk of necroing this thread, I found myself in the same boat (Linux box seeking headless NVIDIA install) and spent days figuring it out. I can now share two other solutions to anyone who might be in a similar situation. The repositories for Debian-based distros like Ubuntu and Linux Mint now...